42 TiLiACE^. [Grewia. 



A large genus, chiefly dispersed over tropical Asia, but extending also to Africa, Australia, 

 and a few species in eastern Asia, beyond the tropics. 



Flowers in terminal panicles. Drupes entire 1. G. microcos. 



Flowers in small lateral or terminal umbels. Drupes lobed . . . . 2,. G. glabrescens. 



1. G. microcos, Linn.; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 81; WigM, 

 Illustr. ^.33. A shrub or small tree, glabrous or minutely tomentose. Leaves 

 shortly stalked, ovate-oblong or nearly lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 6 in, long, 

 slightly toothed towards the upper end. Panicles terminal, oblong, shorter 

 than the leaves, slightly tomentose; the flowers 2 or 3 together, sessile within 

 an involucre of 3 to 6 bracts, not so long as the calyx. Sepals 2| lines long. 

 Petals from i to i as long, the cavity at the base pubescent round the edge. 

 Drupes glabrous, entire ; the kernel 3 -celled. 



Rather scarce in Hongkong, Champion, but widely distributed over India, the Archipelago, 

 and S. China. The fruit is said to attain the size of a gooseberry, and to be generally eateu 

 in India. 



2. G. glabrescens, Bentli., n. sp. Apparently a straggling shrub; the 

 young branches pubescent. Leaves shortly stalked, oval-oblong or nearly 

 lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, toothed, green on both sides, and glabrous or spa- 

 ringly sprinkled with a few short hairs on the upper side, and dotted with a 

 minute stellate pubescence underneath ; stipules small, subulate. Umbels 1 or 

 2 at the ends of short leafy branches. Flowers few, tomentose or pubescent ; 

 the peduncles and pedicels each about 3 lines long. Sepals about 2^ lines. 

 Petals \ as long ; the cavity of the base densely ciliate round the edge. 

 Drupes probably 2- to 6-lobed. 



Hongkong, Wright. I had at fii'st considered this to be a glabrous narrow-leaved variety 

 of the G. parvijlora, Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 9, of which, besides the original N. 

 Chinese specimens, we have others gathered by Fortune on the Chinese continent (n. 15); 

 but on a closer comparison I feel considerable doubts as to their identity. 



4. ELJEOCARPUS, Linn. 



Sepals 4 or 5. Petals as many, toothed, lobed, or fringed. Stamens seve- 

 ral, inserted on a glandular disk. Anthers with adnate cells, opening at the 

 top in transverse valves, often ciliate on the edge. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, Avith 

 2 to 4 ovules in each ceU. Style subulate. Pmit a drupe ; the nut usually 

 -8- to 5-celled. Seeds solitaiy in each cell, pendulous. — Trees. Leaves 

 usually narrow, entire, or serrate. Flowers in axillary or lateral racemes. 



A genus of several species, from tropical Asia, the Mascarene Islands, the Archipelago, 

 Australia and New Zealand. 



Petals divided to the middle into a fringe of narrow^ lobes . . . . \. E. lanceaf alius. 

 Petals crenulate or shortly toothed 2. E. chinensis. 



1. E. lancesefolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 598 ; TFigJd, Ic. L Go. A tree. 

 Leaves shortly stalked, oblong, obtuse or shortly acuminate, 3 or 4 in. long, 

 serrate, naiTOwed at the base, coriaceous and glabrous. Racemes axillary or 

 lateral, below the leaves, and shorter than them. Flow^ers smaller than in the 

 common F. serratiis, on pedicels about 2 lines long. Sepals 5, rather acute, 

 scarcely 2^ lines long. Petals glabrous, rather longer, irregularly divided to 

 about the middle into a fringe of narrow-linear lobes. Anthers slightly downy, 

 scarcely ciliate at the top. Stamens numerous. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules 

 in each cell. Fruit the size of a pigeon's egg, the kernel very thick and hard, 



